Book-cover



(No Model'.)

P. GLOSS.

BOOK COVER.

No. 444,376. Patented Jan. 6, 1 891.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER GLOSS, OF \VOLLASTON, ASSIGN OR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN W. SAN- BORN, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BOOK-COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,376, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed February 8 1890. Serial l lo. 339,746. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern: is a partial longitudinal section enlarged Be it known thatl, PETER OL0ss,a citizen. of through the place where a rivet is located. lllassachusetts,residingat\VollastonHeights, A represents the book; B, the clamp, in in the county of Norfolk and State of Massawhich the edge of said book is inserted di- 5 chusetts, have invented certain new and userectly or without any intermediate means; I),

ful Improvements in Book-Covers; and I do the fastening; C, the back; D D, the covers. 45 hereby declare thefollowing to beafull, clear, My method of attaching said clamp to the and exact description of the invention, such recessed back of said cover is as follows: I t as will enable others skilled in the art to make a round perforation or perforations at 1a which it appertains to make and use the same. about the end or ends of said clamp, as shown My invention relates to an improvement in 'the drawings, using a common eyelet-ma- 50 in the method of attaching the clamp to the chine of the size of the eyelet used. Then in recessed back of the book-cover. lleretofore sert-ing the eyelet or eyelets I compress the the said clamp has been attached to the reend, fastening the eyelet or eyelets firmly in cessed back and covers by a piece of cloth place, leaving no edge to interfere with the fastened to said clamp by points or prongs insertion of said book. bent or clinched to said cloth or without said llaving described my invention, what 1 points or prongs, and then said cloth is pasted claim is tosaid covers and back. This requires stock, The combination, with the covers D and time, and labor. I have accomplished my back B, said back having a perforation or purpose by avoiding the use of any cloth or perforations, of a substantially V-shaped 6o anypointsorprongs and fastening said clamp clamp having a perforation or perforations directly to said recessed back by eyelets in its rear end registering with the perforaclinched at the end, thus saving stock, time, tion or perforations in said back, an eyelet and labor. This method of fastening holds or eyelets passing through said perforation the clamp firmly in the recessed back withor perforations in said back and clamp and out interfering with theinsertion or removal securing the same together, said eyelet or of said memorandum-book into or out of eyelets having clinched ends,and the removsaid clamp. The said clamp has divergent able book A, having its rear end inserted di- 30 corners and is inserted into said recessed rectly into said clamp and its sides at said back. The memorandum-book slidesinto and end in close contact with the inner surfaces out of the said clamp, which grasps and holds of the sides thereof. said book, and said book can only move in In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the direction of the length of said back. presence of two witnesses.

5 In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the entire memorandum-book with one cover thereof raised. Fig. 2 is a longiitnesses;

PETER GLOSS.

tudinal edge view of the same. Fig. 3 'is an GEORGE E. BETTON,

end view with the bookremoved, and Fig. a JERRY GLOSS. 

